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The last Christian left Mosul on Wednesday. The “Palestinians” are precisely allied with that Fascism

NETANYAHU CANNOT END IT

NETANYAHU CANNOT DEFEAT HAMAS

NETANYAHU SEES ONLY ISRAEL DEFENCE

Under Netanyahu and the present leaders in Israel there will never be an end to the war and Israelis will always be under attack from Hamas, and from other attacks too from inside Israel.

The mathematics is quite simple. If Israel does not take over Gaza and dismantle the terrorist Hamas, its leadership and operational bases then Israel has to live with Hamas alongside.

It should be noted very strongly that the IDF was aware of the tunnels from a long time ago. They were even aware that Hamas had changed from one single 8 hour shift to a 24 continuous three 8 hour shifts. Jews in southern Israel were hearing voices!

Gaza is therefore a piece of land that is sitting on extensive tunnels

Only one journalist in the whole international media has reported on seeing Hamas launch rockets, in that case a Finnish journalist, and she reported seeing a rocket launched from the grounds of Shifa Hospital.

The non reporting by the Media of Hamas war crimes, and it is also a war crime to dress up for war in civilian dress, is another important issue for Israel and for all of us who are opposed to this kind of trap.

GAZA WAR IS WIDER THAN GAZA

BUT JEWISH MEDIA IS INSULAR

JEWISH SOCIAL MEDIA IS INNSULAR ALSO

The issue of Hamas and the support effectively for Hamas by that Media is also linked to the issues of the war on the Serbs, the war on Putin and Russia, the war on Kosovo and so on.

There is also the vital matter of the left. It is obvious that in the social media, as on http://www.thejournal.ie there are an organised forcé of people who are writing all the time on the basis of an antisemitic hatred for Israel, that is for Jews. They seem to write full time.

How this can be combatted is an issue. It has not even been discussed never mind combated.

HOW THE ARAB “PALESTINIAN” NARRATIVE WAS SOLD

THE OLD ADAGE OF TRUTH STILL PUTTING HIS PANTS ON WHILE THE LIE IS HALFWAY ROUND THE WORLD

At the basis of this is the way that the Arab “Palestinian” Narrative has been sold. It has been sold most effectively. One answer to this is the book “Phantom Nation”, a large 200 page plus book of A4 size, and that is just Volume 1.

The full 3 Volumes are on Kindle. It is by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

This book is the best answer but even this book in the opinión of 4international is deficient. This is seen in his bias against Marx and Communism and his not understanding of Stalinism, nor the struggle of Leon Trotsky in defence of the Jews.

Why is a clever intelligent writer therefore so not ignorant but biased, therefore skewed?

Martin Sherman makes many good points but sadly Martin has no way to make his knowledge come to life. For that you need a party of a particular type.

Such is the confusión one person on his Facebook even advocates a Jewish “King”. People can say anything in periods of stress and crisis. That is dogma. there was a King in the past so a King now. Such would accuse Marxism as being a dogma!!!

The bottom line is that the war is already lost and this is due totally to leadership. Netanyahu never had the intention clear or otherwise of defeating Hamas.

You will never defeat Hamas if you do not intend to defeat Hamas!

Netanyahu represents a replay of the Popular Front. Perhaps he keeps Hamas because he figures he can do a deal even with Hamas against ISIL

The whole of the problem lies with Netanyahu and what he represents in Israeli society. Not personally. He represents an ideological current.

I REMEMBER WELL THE GAZA WITHDRAWAL

At the time of the Gaza Withdrawal under Sharon Netanyahu played the worst role. The plans of Sharon were meeting with more and more opposition

On Israpundit at the time myself and Joseph Alexander Norland were fighting a hard struggle against the prevarication of Ted Belman on the issue of Withdrawal. Belman had allowed an Omri Coren to post articles and Omri Coren was advocating flat out for the Sharon Withdrawal.

The arguments of Coren were never combatted by Belman who sat on the proverbial fence. But it was so maddening for me because I knew that you never give land to your enemy.

The Israeli people were really confused but as time went on and the date drew nearer and Hamas was more and more gloating and self-confident, there was a MASS movement development from deep within the Israeli masses against withdrawal.

Jared Israel did a useful article on his website which described how teenager boys and girls travelled long distances to talk to the IDF, and opposint withdrawal.

It was at this time that the utter bankruptcy of groups like Women in Green were seen. They marched Israeli religious youth up the hills and they marched them down again. But the Women in Green were pressure politics people when what was needed was a revolutionary Jewish party

In the end it was the Settlements Leaders who knifed the Israeli people in the back and they came in and backed up Sharon. Especially the Rabbis backed up Sharon.

Feiglin always note has a correct position but…Feiglin does not build a party of the mass movement. Feiglin advocates for Feiglin. Some of the things Feiglin says are good but Feiglin says them and then retreats into nothingness.

The issue in Israel is one of power. People like Netanyahu capture power in the Knesset and then rule as dictators for the next usually ten years. It appears like democracy but the Media control make it a real dictatorship. Media and money and power! Look at what Netanyahu did recently to Danny Dayon. He sacked him.

What is needed now is the most determined struggle inside and outside of the Knesset, on the soldiers committees which need to be set up if necessary, on groups like Women in Green, on social media like Jews News, on every forum as to how to mobilise the Israeli people against what is a Maoist Fascist type group (Hamas and Fatah)which is allied with US Imperialism, British Imperialism and world antisemitism.

PARTY OR SPECIAL ORGANIZATION NOT BEFORE SEEN IN ISRAEL

You need a party in Israel.

As somebody said in a comment Netanyahu is engaging in talks in Cairo and his solution is international demilitarisation of Hamas.

How did that work out in Lebanon? Brilliant wasn’t it. Israel now has 10,000 rockets of Hisbullah trained on its cities thanks to the UN, those Irish and Spanish soldiers, all great friends of the Jews y’know!

So Netanyahu must go. He must go as soon as possible. It is precisely in a war and through a war that you can see that the leaders are not up to the task

Abbas should have been arrested and the Fatah movement banned the first indication that Abbas was forming a Unity Government

All contacts with Obama who was backing that Unity Government had and have to be broken off

(Take up a big fight in Europe against the likes of Steven Ritson of Talk Radio Europe who obviously thinks the Unity Government is the way forward. This is Unity with fascists…hamas is Fascist and Ritson needs to have that stuffed down his throat)

The answer to Ritson is that you do not unite with Fascists if you do not intend to carry out a Fascist programme.

Netanyahu did nothing along these lines.

He did not arrest Abbas. He did not break off all contact with Obama and Kerry.

Netanyahu did nothing. He mouthed and mouthed but he did nothing.

HAS THERE EVER BEEN SUCH WAR BUNGLING

The War…the worst example of Israeli Government bungling.

It should be the very simplest matter to defeat Hamas. Any so called fighter who burrows underneath leaves themselves totally vulnerable to what is above and comin at em

But nothing was comin at em.

Netanyahu was throwing out feelers picked up by these disreputable journalists all round the place, not just in Israel, that it was better to keep Hamas because the alternative might be worse.

So sickening! So morale sapping!

SOME OBVIOUS STEPS

Step 1. Jews had to be withdrawn from the border with Gaza. Move them out of dangers way. Have Jews elsewhere put them up.

Step 2. The IDF drives a wedge over the ground that the Hamas leaders are skulking under

Step 3. All “civilians” out of that area. Level it. Occupy that area. Send depth charges. No Jewish soldier should go near the mouth of a tunnel. That is what depth charges are for.

Step 4. Demand that Hamas surrender and if they do not … occupy by great force and ruthlessness the whole of the Gaza area. Do not let them escape from any corner. Place the captured Hamas leadership on trial. Place the UN organizations on trial. Be prepared to meet the force of Obama’s Nato with extreme force. Send out messages of alliances with others in a similar situation such as the antifascists in Donesk Ukraine and in Crimea.

Step 4…The Arabs of Gaza. Those Arabs who support the Jewish Homeland and who reject the poison of Antisemitism in a meaningful way can remain in Israel as guests. No others can remain. No Antisemites can remain. Antisemitism remains the bottom line and main issue of our times. Trotskyist socialists cannot and must not stand aside from that

Yesterday I claimed that in the face of Abbas Hamas pact that the Israeli leaders, all of them, were paralysed. How sadly true that was. Interviewed by BBC Antisemites Netanyahu was on the defensive. Netanyahu used the word “peace” 20 times. But unfortunately it is war.

Netanyahu is a creature of US Imperialism and if Jews are not careful the whole of the Israeli struggle for a Homeland is going down the same road. It is a life and death struggle now to create a new leadership which can break from the past. In this real and material world who cares about acceptance by capitalist nation states all of which are being driven (like Spain) towards Fascist rule once again. Who cares, really?

Yet Netanyahu will NOT fight the Americans. The US said at first (yesterday) that Abbas joining Hamas was not a nice thing to do, but this morning 24 hours later America was calling for a “compromise” to be reached. Who has to compromiso? The Jews. That is the same as asking Jews as they were marched into the Nazi concentration camp to compromiso!!! Hamas and Abbas ARE the Nazis in modern form.

The Islam enemy of the Jews now Abbas and Hamas has called war and America calls compromise. America wants Jews to compromise, as in 1939 at the gates of Auschwitz

But America that is Kerry were not seeking compromise this morning when they were declaring war on Russia over Ukraine. When will this hypocrisy ever be ended.

On all of these issues Israeli and Jewish leadership is bankrupt. They can DO nothing and will do nothing. Jewish leadership is a total danger to the Jewish people on all of its fronts.

Here I kid you not. Just yesterday the Jewish so called blog called Israpundit gang of violent Fascists were focussed (at this time) on driving off Israpundit a Christian man who this gang of fascists had labelled an Antisemite. This particular Christian has the same policy more or less as Martin Sherman in that he calls for Arabs to be induced to leave with lump sum payment. So he is an asset to the Jews. But the gang of Israpundit were driving him off AND OTHERS with repeated slurs of him being an Antisemite.

It is just an expression of the crisis, no more tan that. Groups and individuals that have sprung up around the Jewish movement have to be questioned on every single issue of programme and policy. But when they start throwing the label “Antisemite” around that is a real danger sign.

The situation needs urgently a revolutionary socialist Trotskyist Party. This will go back into the 1930s and to the analysis which Leon Trotsky was making against Stalinism and against Fascism. How to defeat Imperialism? How to stop Fascism? How to save Jews from Antisemitism? The fight against Stalinism and the legacy of Stalinism! The fight for principle! Opposition to isolationism and the struggle for a principled Trotskyist Party in these conditions of world capitalist crisis.

First of all American diplomats like Kerry must be banned from entering Israel.

The forces of this Fascist movement which we can label as “Palestinianism” must be smashed. This means the immediate arrest of the PA leadership and as el Sisi did with Morsi Abbas must be placed on trial for his crimes. Join forces with el Sisi to smash hamas totally, and executing all its leaders all of whom have murdered Jews. But take possession of both gaza and Sinai.

The politics of Caroline Glick must be opposed down the line—I would say on everything and here I disagree with Martin Sherman…I say oppose her on everything! There can be no living at all with Arabs in the Jewish homeland and rather than that Jews have to protect themselves from this form of Antisemitsm. Glick proposes to make them citizens…what a horror show that is and what a horror show is Glick!

Israel has to be far less reliant on these international capitalist governments. Israel is far too intent on business. Fight for principle. Israel must now urgently create an Alliance with those Russians in Ukraine who are fighting Fascism and fighting NATO. Israel must state that the Kiev regime must be overthrown and as an immediate action Russia must move into East Ukraine with all its force to stop these murders of antifascist fighters as happened yesterday…five murdered by the Fascists. But Israeli leaders say not a Word…a horror show for Jews. People are fighting Fascism and Jews are silent as the grave!

And so on. Name any issue and Israeli leaders are totally useless and worse downright dangerous for Jews.

Above all créate a party which will fight in concrete form for principle. This is 4international and we do have a definite programme of theory and action which is rooted inside the great history of Trotskyism. So far it is a free world. join us if you have the courage to act rather tan talk…Felix Quigley

Yes, oh yes, indeed Ukraine could in a split second happen also to Israel. In Ukraine a bunch of Fascists financed through the US State Department have taken power of the state, and the President who was democratically elected in a democratic bourgeois election has been kicked out. THAT is Fascism is it not? Where bourgeois and parliamentary democracy is dispatched within mere days by means of Fascist bands of men and it seems women on the streets.

I open up Israpundit, I open up Pamela Geller, I open up the Jihadwatch of Spencer this morning and there is NOT ONE SYLABLE about the Fascist coup in Ukraine.

That can only mean one thing and that is that these flunkies who claim to defend Jews are in favour of this Fascism which is filling our news screens because essentially it strikes a blow against the still memory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Belman who host Fascists on his site, Geller and Spencer…what chance do Jews have with people like this around!

THE RECENT CAROLINE GLICK ARTICLE IS ATROCIOUS

In this theme I have opened up the recent article by Caroline Glick this morning. If ever there was a loose cannon in the Jewish movement then it is Glick. Remember Glick got her political education inside US Imperialist politics. Among many things what struck me in this latest load of old cobblers from Glick is that she is calling for America to arm Japan against China, and she is calling on America to help South Korea to develop Nuclear Arms against North Korea. The essence is that she wants Israel to be the trusted ally of the US Imperialists.

She WILL support the Fascists in Ukraine…that is a fairly safe prediction. In other words right there in the centre of the Israeli bloggers is Glick a complete tool of US Imperialism. How could the Jews not go down with that there in place betraying Jewish interests because of her commitment to US Imperialism? She hates Obama because Obama is not Imperialist enough. Bush who removed Saddam and Glick campaigned for the Iraq War is her idol basically. We know that Obama is an Antisemite and a big danger to the Jews, but so was Bush in his Iraq war that Glick supported.

GLICK AND JOHN BOLTON

You can learn a lot about this crisis of Jewish leadership in Israel by paying attention to what John Bolton writes, mainly because Bolton is supported by all of these Jewish leaders I write here about,

…I have transcribed a handful of paragraphs from neocon John Bolton who is a big favourite of the above worthies, and it becomes clear what the issue is. The Jews are being led by the nose not just by the criminal traitor Netanyahu, but by a whole coterie of reactionaries. See what you think of what I think of Bolton. Young Jews have to break with this, who in 2014 needs this?

Feb 18, 2014 LA Times…John Bolton

EXTRACT FROM RECENT ARTICLE BY BOLTON

1…Obama’s first error: misreading your adversary. There was never any chance Iran could be negotiated out of a nuclear weapons capability it has pursued for nearly 30 years. Efforts during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations demonstrated how Iran deftly uses negotiations to gain political legitimacy, buy time to continue work on its nuclear program and evade international punishment. Hassan Rouhani followed precisely this playbook as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator 10 years ago. He is doing so again today as Iran’s president.

2…The second error: not knowing who your adversaries are. Obama argued for three years that Russia shared his objective of a peaceful transition from the Assad regime in Syria to something else. This was never true. Moscow’s support for Assad (as well as Iran’s, directly and through Hezbollah) guaranteed he would only depart feet first. The U.S. could either have aided Syria’s opposition or tackled the problem’s root cause: the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. Obama chose to do neither. His equivocation regarding Syria’s chemical weapons program has provoked giggles or dismay at White House weakness.

3…The third error: not knowing who your friends are. The Palestinians lack legitimate governing institutions capable of hard decisions, including making perilous concessions and compromises, and overcoming resistance by Hamas and other terrorists. Without such institutions, no long-term solution is possible. Negotiating with the Palestinian Authority has less substance than negotiating with a hologram. Perversely, however, Obama treats Israel as the problem.

4…Not apprehending these realities or foreseeing their consequences debilitates the United States, discourages its allies and emboldens its adversaries. The coming collapse of all three of Obama’s negotiations will convince foreign governments that his policies are dooming Washington’s Middle East influence to precipitous decline. And since appearance is reality in international politics, America’s ability to influence events — in Egypt for example, where the military government is already reverting to pre-Sadat days, purchasing arms from Russia — will sink further. Moreover, the opportunity costs of not focusing on threats elsewhere, such as China’s belligerent territorial claims in its coastal waters, are enormous.

To help us I have numbered these 4 paragraphs extracted from Bolton’s article

Bolton pretends to be a friend of Israel. Israeli leaders and Israeli so-called Pundits lap it up from Bolton. A kitten would have much more independence of mind than these Israeli leaders. An example is Belman editor of Israpundit who guests on his now notorious website Israpundit McCarthyite types, real communist haters, real communist bashers. One of their tricks that I object to…they have even named the Israeli traitors like Livni as being “Leftists”, the intent here of Belman types is obvious. It is to put in the minds of Jews the idea that all socialists are traitors. A kind of McCarthyite trick inside the Jewish movement.

But Bolton is no friend. Bolton wants to tie Israel behind US Imperialist policy. The main aim of Bolton and people like Bolton is to support any movement that will attack Russia or China. Why Russia or China? The answer is also obvious. The Bolton types have never forgotten the big shock to their system that was the Russian Revolution of 1917, where the power of the state machine was taken out of the hands of the Russian bourgeoisie and thereby the WORLD capitalist class, and placed in the hands of the workers of Russia, with the peasantry supporting. There is also basic contemporary capitalist international rivalry expressed in Bolton but that is entertwined with the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. It is also why Bolton was supportive of the Joe McCarthy in skirts of today’s world, Diana West, also supported strongly by Gates of Vienna. These are dangerous waters leading to Fascism, although GOV is not Fascist and is sometimes in opposition to Jihad progressive.

Let me return to his Bolton’s article. It is directed towards these Jewish leaders, like Belman of Israpundit, who thinks because he is Jewish that that means that Belman should be listened to with respect. But No! That does not follow at all. Belman gives an open Fascist all the liberty that Fascist needs on his site. In other words Belman covers for a Fascist. Instead look carefully at paragraphs 1 and 2, and there you will discover what Bolton is really about. Bolton is saying that there is an automatic connection or even transition between Iran with its Nuclear Genocidal against the Jews plans, and Assad.

But that is false by Bolton. In reality they are two different things. Assad is threatened with his life by a combination of Jihad and US EU NATO force. As in the situation of Yugoslavia, Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaghbo who is now in the Hague, and Gadhafi… He has a right to take support from wherever including from the very devil himself if he appears in order to fight for survival against the Jihad cum Empire. Not only has Assad a right to do so, but he is right to do so. Bolton throws Israel into this mix. But he does not answer that Israel had the right to hit the Iranian Nuclear Bomb and needed to hit the Iranian Bomb but did not do so. It was not only Obama but also Bush (who mentored Bolton) who held Israel back.

From paragraph 2 “The U.S. could either have aided Syria’s opposition or tackled the problem’s root cause: the mullahs’ regime in Tehran. Obama chose to do neither. His equivocation regarding Syria’s chemical weapons program has provoked giggles or dismay at White House weakness.”

You can see the sleight of hand in Bolton’s method. He says the root cause of Syria is the Iranian Mullahs. How so Bolton?

Why not say that the root cause is the way that the Jihad has combined with US and EU in removing secular rulers like Gadhafi and Mubarak, to replace them with open Fascism, and that these same forces are threatening Assad.

If you bother to trace back you will find that Bolton supported the removal of Gadhafi. In fact Belman of Israpundit actually called for US planes to attack and knock out the Libyan air force as a necessary step to bringing down Gadhafi. THAT is vintage Bolton and vintage Israpundit (Belman)

We await with interest what Bolton will say on Ukraine, so far he is silent, and Belman, too scared to say a word on Ukraine.

Some leaders!

So in a nutshell… Israel is in such danger not just from Obama but from the Jewish basic position in the world in relation to Imperialism through people like Belman. It needs to have a rethink. This will hardly be done by these capitalist types like Belman. If Belman was serious he might start by removing Fascists from his site.

Israel is being tied up in knots by these so called leaders. But they lead where? Only towards keeping this bankrupt capitalist system in control and power. Thus the capitalist threatens the Jews, and by the way every nationality on earth, every worker, every poor peasant, every wild animal, all of nature and all of the environment. At the end of the day the Jewish youth must break from this and indeed if only to preserve their rich Jewish history and experience must break from this. This can only be done through Trotskyist leadership and all of the above will fight bitterly against that thought and perspective so be prepared.

The capitalist system is in deep crisis, getting worse, and is gearing towards Fascist forms of rule in every country int he world

Although Putin and Yanukovych are in political terms bureaucratic, afraid of the mass movement, they still have a connection however distorted that connection is to the socialist revolution of 1917

Just as Stalin set out to murder Trotsky and all opposition which was rooted in the 1917 socialist revolution, so from at least Reagan on the whole aim of the US and now the EU is to destroy every trace of the socialist revolution of 1917.

This also lay behind the war on the Serbs by NATO, by the UN, by the US and EU

It also in a different way, but definitely connected, lies behind Antisemitism and the present war of the US and EU against Israel.

Both are connected. The criminal is the capitalist system overall, and we emphasise again the capitalist system plunging into crisis.

There is a close connection between the US and EU which supports the Hamas and Fatah, and the same US and EU in support of the “Fatherland” bunch of Fascist hoodlums in Kiev, Ukraine

The “Fatherland” has its roots in the Holocaust of the Jews in the Ukraine. The Fatah and Hamas were founded by the Nazi Palestinian Arab Hajj Amin el Husseini, close relative of Arafat, and el Husseini was at least the equal of Eichmann in the Holocaust.

Even further back, one step back from the Nazi Holocaust, the “Fatherland” has its real roots in the “Whites”, that is those Antisemites who Trotsky was fighting against (and defeating) in the Russian Civil War years following 1918

It was actually the defeat of these “Whites” in that great struggle from 1918 to 1921 which prevented the Whites winning control of the Russian state, thus triggering the “Holocaust” right there and then

Once again Yanukovych and Putin must stand firm. 4international and myself, Felix Quigley, stand totally behind them in opposition to Obama, Cameron and Hague

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN ISRAEL WHERE A GOVERNMENT IS BEING FORMED BASED ON THE RECENT ELECTIONS IS BECOMING CRITICAL. THE WEBSITE ISRAPUNDIT IS DISCUSSING THE ISSUES INVOLVED AND READERS HERE SHOULD FOLLOW AND PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION.

This is the political DNA of Yesh Atid, and as such it is incompatible with that of Bayit Yehudi – despite the alleged like-mindedness said to prevail between the parties on other issues.

Thus, while Bayit Yehudi issued a very upbeat announcement Thursday, declaring complete consensus and coordination with Yesh Atid, I would be highly skeptical as to whether such consensus/coordination extends to the cardinal issue at the center of the respective DNAs of the parties: The issue of Palestinian statehood.

This seems to confirm my central thesis on the other thread.

There is a mountain between Bennett and Lapid.

Meaning…the people who voted for Bennett voted for a man who stood for the fight against the Jihad against Israel, specifically the Palestine Arab State issue and how to halt that in its tracks. (Very simply those for the Palestine State are for the Jihad, both the Jihad against Israel and the Jihad in general.

The article above is masterly in showing that many who voted for Lapid were people in Israel without any firm foundations, for example, he refers very specifically above to people voting against all politics, that is nihilism, or last minute voters, that are swung into action by latest tv reports. These are the chaff of political life.

The strength of the Bennett vote remains and may increase, as it is certain to me anyway that Obama will get together with Abbas and Hamas to actually INSTAL Hamas.

Thus the fear and hatred of Lapid will grow, and the position of Bennett will be stronger.

People here can counter oh but Bennett is this and that, he did this and that. I KNOW THAT. You may know it better than me because you may simply be better informed.

But my fundamental point is unchanged…it is the movement of the key people behind Bennett’s new party that is all important.

The conditions for a great advance in Jewish consciousness is there. All is needed is the independent revolutionary party.

Here I have not yet touched on the need for the arming of the Jewish people and for the complete overhaul of the IDF so that the IDF is answerable not to careerist bureaucrats but the Jewish people

INTRODUCTION TO NEUWIRTH BY 4INTERNATIONAL, WHICH WILL FORM PART OF A LONGER ARTICLE TO APPEAR ON OUR SISTER WEBSITE www.wedefendisrael.com

INTRODUCTION TO NEUWIRTH

Let us immediately and from the very outset dismiss historical relativism. There are not TWO or (worse) MANY narratives about the Arab Israeli conflict. There is only the one narrative and it is neither Israeli or Arab, it is the historical truth, or as near to that historical truth that it is possible for our human endeavours to approach, and as we learn more we approach closer and closer.

Rachel Neuwirth in her great historical treatise on 1948 has dealt a big blow against this historical relativism, which incidentally is also a moral relativism, in her April 13, 2008 titled The Expulsion Libel: 1948 Arab “Exodus”

4international in its work of 10 historical essays to appear on the sister website www.wedefendisrael.com is vitally interested in these 2 dates, the 1947 to 1949 period, and the 1967 7 days war period.

Most of the arguments concentrate around these two periods. They were periods of war and great change. War tends to be decisive and we must get close to the truth in remembering these two periods

Very, very fortunately the great Rachel Neuwirth has done much of our work for us in the former. Neuwirth is it would be fair to say not a Marxist or Trotskyist, is a bourgeois in her outlook, but no matter, her method is scientific and is true to historical scientific method.

Did the Jews in that war move ANY Arabs from their villages? Yes!

Since that answer is in the affirmative then it is possible for a certain type of “historian” better described as an unprincipled “scoundrel” to take such movements, dig a little, create a little if necessary, and hey presto we have a whole new narrative right there

Rachel Neuwirth thunders hammer blows against such lies and against that whole, unprincipled method of “history”.

She uses the same method which Leon Trotsky used, indeed used page after page, in his monumental work on the history of the Russian Revolution

This method which both Neuwirth and Trotsky employed is both simple and complex. Simple in the sense they use facts. Complex in the sense these facts are placed in context, a context itself which is based on facts.

About the same time a “study” of this 1947 to 1949 period was proffered to the Wikipedia encyclopaedia online, written from the Arab side, or from those who claim there are umpteen versions of this history, and the contrast between Wikipedia and Neuwirth is quite outstanding.

So back to that question did the Jews move any Arabs from their villages in 1947 to 1949 and see how Neuwirth answers it.

(start Neuwirth here)

“I did not mean that no Israelis have forced any Arab residents of Palestine to evacuate their homes at any place or at any time during the past sixty years. Rather I meant that there was never any mass expulsion of the Arab population as a whole from Palestine/Israel, or from any region or part of Palestine/Israel, either during the Israeli War of Independence in 1947 – 49(the usual time-frame given by the anti-Israel “revisionist” or “new” historians for the alleged expulsion) or at any other time, and that it was never the policy or objective of Israel’s government to make Israel or Palestine “Arab-free,” or of “ethnically cleansing” the country of Arabs. If there ever was such a policy, then it would be impossible to explain how 1.4 million Arabs live in what is now sovereign Israeli territory today — many more than lived in the same territory before the state of Israel was founded. Just before the outbreak of first major Arab-Israeli war on November 30, 1947, a few months before Israelis declared their independence, there were at most 900,000 Arabs living in this same area.

Today there are large Arab populations in every region of modern-day Israel — the Galilee region in the north, the central coastal plain, the Judean hills, the “Shefela” or foothills region, and the Negev desert in the south. Arabs are at least 20 per cent of Israel’s present-day population. Arabs are half the population of two Israeli cities, Ramla and Lod, from which the Arab residents were, according to many historical accounts, expelled by Israeli soldiers during the War of Independence.

Naturally, I am skeptical of these accounts, since they don’t explain why there are more Arabs residing in these two cities (which were only small towns in 1948) than there were before the Arabs were allegedly expelled from them. Akko, another Israeli city, still has an Arab majority, just as it did in 1948, before Israeli soldiers gained control of it. There are large Arab communities in Israel’s three largest cities, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Jerusalem, and Haifa, as well as in the city of Beersheva, which was a tiny village in 1948, but now has a combined Jewish and Arab population of over 100,000 people.

Over 100 of the Arab villages that were in what is now Israel before the nation was re-established in 1948 are still in Israel today; some of them, such as Umm-el-Fahm, Nazareth, and Sakhnin, have grown into all-Arab cities over the past sixty years. The Israeli government has also built new towns for its Arab citizens at locations that were previously uninhabited, and provided new homes and land to the Arab “settlers” in these communities at little or no cost to them.

And all of this Arab population is additional to the Arab inhabitants of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza region, who now number (depending on which population estimate you choose to believe) somewhere between 2.4 and 3.6 million people. This makes for a total present-day Arab population of what had been the territory of western Palestine under the British mandate of somewhere between 3.6 and 5 million people — about three times the total Arab population of this territory right before the War of Independence, and seven to ten times the Arab population in 1891. And if we include what is now the Kingdom of Jordan in “Palestine,” which we should, since it was the eastern section of the original British Palestine Mandate territory, then the total Arab population of Palestine has risen for about 1.7 million immediately before Israel became independent to perhaps eight million today. Some expulsion!

Neuwirth strikes many other blows against relativism which we will deal with in detail. In the meantime you can read the whole at this source

NORWAY: SOCIALIST LEFT PARTY TO VOTE ON MOTION CALLING FOR BOMBING ISRAEL IF IT ACTS AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA

For many reasons this is very, very interesting. One of the slightly off the tangent reasons is that I remember that Leon Trotsky spent quite some time in Norway, when he was on the run from the then “Global Alliance” which included Stalinist killers, and he was very critical of the new leftist social democrat (labour party) types. That is “somewhere” on the net

I reprint this and I leave mistakes, probably due to translation, as is:

It’s come to this. The junior partner in the Norwegian government, the Socialist Left Party of Kristin Halvorsen, (Sosialistisk Venstreparti), plans to vote on a measure calling for military action against Israel if it decides to act against the Hamas in Gaza. Norway, Israel and the Jews blog informs the Tundra Tabloids of the following:Socialistic Left dubious moral tradeoff for bombing Libya: Use armed force against Israel

NIJ: The SV annual convention goes to vote. The deranged junior partner in the current government coalition will among other proposals vote on a motion to use armed force against Israel should it attack Gaza.

The motion is the blood money required to pay off SV card carrying members who find it hard to accept that they have taken the nation to war, again. Last time it did so was back in 1999, when the party backed the NATO bombing of Serbia. As a result, we got ourselves involved in a war crimes probe because of high number of civilian casualties and bombing illegal targets.

Therefore, the only way it can be palatable to bomb Libya for these morally deranged people is if Israel can be bombed too.

Here is the less than lucid reasoning behind the motion:

– The credibility of the world community in its confrontation with the Gadafi regime is undermined when there is no reaction against other states in the region who commit injustices against civil population. The greater world community must therefore also react against Israeli air attacks on the Gaza strip.

So the rationel behind the recent action taken against the Libyan regime is gaining ground in the circles of the Norwegian Left (and most likely here in Europe as well) that something similar should be taken against the Israelis, in the event that the Jewish state reacts against terrorism. It’s an outrageous proposal to say the least, but we’re talking about Norwegian politicians here, many of whom still blame Israel for the failed peace plan that bears the name of their capital.

Prof. M. McGonagall, editor of the Israel, Norway and Jews blog, does us all a big favor in keeping a sharp eye on what passes for normal political discourse in Norway, it’s absolutely stunning for the rest of us though.

NOTE: Remember, Kristin Halvorsen is the same woman while as Finance Minister in the Norwegian government, participated in an anti-Israel demonstration where shouts of “kill the Jews” we heard, and appeared smiling. She’s now Minister of Education. Also, make sure that you read NIJ’s:

The strange world of Trond Andresen – one of the NTNU initiators of the Boycott Israel campaign and

Dershowitz on Norway: ‘A quiet and implicit boycott…’

SV allows for military force against IsraelIn a proposal to the congress by a unanimous editorial committee opened it for the world community to intervene militarily against Israel if the country goes to the attacks on Gaza.

The proposal focuses on Norway’s participation in the Libyan war, is also committed to act against Israel., Writes aftenbladet.no.

– The world’s credibility in the confrontation with the Gaddafi regime is weakened when the reaction to other states in the region who commit atrocities against civilians fail. The world community must also act against Israeli aircraft attack in the Gaza Strip, “the proposal for comment.

There was a proposal to send the statement back to the editorial committee, but this did not get a majority in the Assembly. On the other hand went into the congress to postpone the matter until Sunday.

– Available options

Secretary of State Roger Sandum believes the proposal does not add up to the shelling of Israeli positions.

– There are a number of other ways to act against Israel, “he says to Eve magazine.

Earlier in the day asked him how Eve magazine deputy Bard Vegard Solhjell looked at this question. He replied as follows:

– I think the important thing is to urge Israel not to bomb and attack the Palestinian territories. And demand an end to occupation and a different policy from the Israeli side.

– Stop arms sales

– But should the world community to intervene with Israel if they are ready to bomb Gaza?

– I believe that if many more countries like Norway and did not traded arms with Israel, it would be able to have a real impact on Israeli politics. They are extremely dependent on the sale and import of weapons.

– If it could be a wider support for it, it would give a real noticeable effect. Other types of things that would put the power behind the demands to the Israeli government, I mean the international community must consider and Norway to work for, “said Solhjell to Aftenbladet.